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scattering three or four bushels per acre over an whole 
ground 1s best.* 
Query 9. What is the greatest product you Ha 
known by the means of plaister ? 
Answer. Of hay three tuns per acre; as to corn I 
cannot say, as I have generally used dung as well as 
plaister. 
Query 10. Have you ever used it in connexion with 
other manure, and does it agree with lime ?—and what 
effect has a connection with other manures produced 
superior to the plaister alone ? 
Answer. \ have never tried it in'a compost with lime 
or other manures. 
Query 11. Its duration ? 
Answer. Its effect is perceivable for four or five 
years. 
Query 12. Is there any difference in quality between 
the American and European plaister ? 
Answer. U have used both without being able to dis- 
cover any; but have been informed that the Stucco 
* This is the best though the most expensive way, as the 
roots of the corn ‘spréad ‘far from the hill, and fill the field 
at one stage or other of the growth of the plant. But it re- 
quires good tilth to keep down the weeds. Nothing requires 
more clean farming than corn, which is seldom ploughed 
often enough. Only those who have experienced it, can con- 
ceive the wonderful increase of corn, with a ploughing extra- 
ordinary after wheat harvest ; if it is done when the weather 
is moist. In a drought it is rather dangerous. 
Re Pe. 
